capital goods
capital goods 资本货物;生产资料 指用于生产或提供其他货物或服务的耐用物料,例如:机器、设备等。
Goods (such as equipment and machinery) used for the production of other goods or services. — Also termed industrial goods.
consumer goods 消费品;生活资料 主要供个人或家庭使用或购买的商品,而不是用于转售或生产其他商品之目的,区别于生产资料〔capital goods〕。 (→consumer product)
A tax credit intended to stimulate business investment in capital goods by allowing a percentage of the purchase price as a credit against the taxpayer’s income taxes. • The Tax Reform Act of 1986 generally repealed this credit retroactively for most property placed in service after January 1, 1986. — Abbr. ITC. [Cases: Internal Revenue
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investment. 1. An expenditure to acquire property or assets to produce revenue; a capital outlay. [Cases: Contracts 193.] fixed-dollar investment. An investment whose value is the same when sold as it was when purchased. • Examples are bonds held to maturity, certain government securities, and savings accounts. fixed-income investment. An investment (including preferred stock) that
net national product. The total value of goods and services produced in a country during a specific period, after deducting capital replacement costs.
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reditus (red-[schwa]-t[schwa]s), n. [Latin “return”] A revenue or return; esp. rent. — Also spelled redditus. reditus albi (al-bI). [Latin “white return”] Rent payable in silver or other money. reditus capitales (kap-[schwa]-tay-leez). [Latin “capital return”] Chief rent paid by a freeholder to go quit of all other services. See QUIT RENT. reditus nigri (nig-rI). [Latin “black
communism. 1. A political doctrine, based on Marxism, advocating the abolition of capitalism by ground-roots revolution; specif., a social and political doctrine advocating the abolition of private ownership in favor of common ownership of the means of production and the goods produced, each person contributing as able and receiving as needed. Cf. CAPITALISM. 2. Totalitarian
European Union. An association of European nations whose purpose is to achieve full economic unity (and eventual political union) by agreeing to eliminate barriers to the free movement of capital, goods, and labor among the member-nations. • The European Union was formed as the European Economic Community (EEC) by the Treaty of Rome in 1957,
A franchise using local capital and management by contracting with third parties to operate a facility identified as offering a particular brand of goods or services.
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